We built a proof-of-concept site using charity filings from our (Canadian) charity registrar to feed the site. The data is very limited, but it's about a lot of organizations - both foundations and charities. There is a ton of data which I don't believe that IATI measures will ever collect (smaller orgs). And there is some more data in the charity filing that we are not using but which I think would be relevant.

We believe that this approach is interesting because it is data required by another arm of government and therefore it requires no added work by the charity.

We're still considering the idea of creating (very incomplete) IATI feeds from this data and how to leverage this data to encourage charities to adopt publishing more IATI data. If anyone wants to discuss either or both of those, please get in touch.

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